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- Today’s weird kids’ YouTube channels have nothing on the first season of Pokémon
- Trump renews call for Apple to make its products in the US
- Happy birthday, Google: this week in tech, 20 years ago
- How Tor.com went from website to publisher of sci-fi’s most innovative stories
- 11 new trailers you should watch this week
- Dell’s annual sale, 4K TV discounts and more of the week’s best tech deals
- The search for alien life needs a new space telescope, astronomers say
- The Predator could have been the franchise’s chance to finally have an identity
- The Pentagon plans to spend $2 billion to put more artificial intelligence into its weaponry
| Today’s weird kids’ YouTube channels have nothing on the first season of Pokémon Posted: 08 Sep 2018 01:00 PM PDT  Yesterday, apropos of seemingly nothing, a tiny voice deep in the folds of my brain squeaked at me: "Pika-pi," it said. "Pika, pika-chu." Well-conditioned late-'90s child that I am, I was compelled to answer the call: I had to consume some Pokémon. It was only after I was eight episodes into the original series that I realized (no, really, I am not making this up for dramatic effect): the next day — today — was the 20th anniversary of the Pokémon pilot airing in the US That "Pika-pi" has been drilling into my skull for two decades, years after I'd stopped giving a damn about new Pokémon games (sorry, friends, 250 is my limit), and now here it was again, to passive-aggressively remind me of my encroaching mortality. The question of... |
| Trump renews call for Apple to make its products in the US Posted: 08 Sep 2018 12:00 PM PDT  President Donald Trump suggested this morning that Apple should move its manufacturing plants to America as a way to avoid tariffs in the ongoing trade dispute between the US and China, following reports that the company's products could become more expensive. The Trump administration began imposing a series of tariffs on goods from China this summer, but up until now, consumer electronics have been left off the list. That could soon change, as the latest proposed round of tariffs could include products from companies like Apple, Fitbit and Sonos. This week, Apple said that the tariffs would amount to a 25 percent tax on products like the Apple Pencil, AirPods, Apple Watch, HomePod, Mac Mini, and others (or individual components used in... |
| Happy birthday, Google: this week in tech, 20 years ago Posted: 08 Sep 2018 11:00 AM PDT One of 1998's biggest tech stories was the massive antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft. It's Monopoly Week on The Verge, so I wrote a bit about that lawsuit's place in the '90s legal landscape. I also reviewed Antitrust, the 2001 thriller about a fictionalized Microsoft that murders software developers to steal their code. But today's big news involves another incredibly important, potentially monopolistic tech company: Google, which was founded on September 4th, 1998. To celebrate, you can check out some "stickers" from one of Google's earliest iterations. Or you can read on for news about celebrity chat rooms, flame mail, and a North Korean satellite. Hello Google, goodbye BackrubLarry Page and Sergey Brin launched the Google search... |
| How Tor.com went from website to publisher of sci-fi’s most innovative stories Posted: 08 Sep 2018 10:00 AM PDT  In July 2008, science fiction publisher Tor launched a new website called Tor.com to promote its upcoming releases. But the site was designed to go beyond Tor's books. It was meant to provide coverage for books from other publishers as well as original fiction chosen by Tor editors. Since its founding, Tor.com has gone from a simple website to a full-fledged publishing operation. In addition to publishing shorter works of fiction, it also publishes a range of novelettes, novellas, and even some short novels, with books like Nnedi Okorafor's Binti and Martha Wells' All Systems Red earning considerable acclaim from the science fiction community. This week, the site published the anthology Worlds Seen in Passing: 10 Years of Tor.com Short... |
| 11 new trailers you should watch this week Posted: 08 Sep 2018 09:00 AM PDT  I'm in the middle of reading Pride and Prejudice for the first time after being a huge fan of the 2005 film adaptation for at least a couple years. It's been fascinating to see the differences between the book and the movie (what they cut, the lines they shifted around, how they adapted a multipage explanatory letter into a dramatic scene). But the thing that's stood out to me the most is just how inseparable the actors' performances have become from the lines I'm reading on the page. In a lot of ways, I suspect it's like reading Shakespeare after seeing it performed — particularly because the lines aren't entirely in modern English, and especially because Jane Austen's dialogue is laced with so much understated sarcasm and quiet... |
| Dell’s annual sale, 4K TV discounts and more of the week’s best tech deals Posted: 08 Sep 2018 08:00 AM PDT  Summer is coming to an end, which means that soon we'll all be retreating to our living rooms and getting cozy for the winter. Whether you're looking forward to football season or pilot season, now is the perfect time to upgrade your TV setup. Walmart and Amazon are both running discounts on 4K TVs in several price ranges. TCL's Roku Smart TVs are always a good budget pick; if you're going to splurge, Sony's $6,000 75-inch Smart LED TV is half off at Amazon. If you're in the market for a smaller screen, Dell is running its annual sale on Inspiron, Alienware and XPS laptops and desktop PCs. Save an extra 17 percent already discounted prices with code SAVE17. 4K TVs
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| The search for alien life needs a new space telescope, astronomers say Posted: 08 Sep 2018 07:00 AM PDT  If NASA truly wants to get serious in the search for life off of Earth, scientists argue that the space agency should launch a new, large telescope into space — one capable of directly capturing the images of planets outside our Solar System. Such technology doesn't fully exist at the moment. But astronomers say it's our best bet to find another Earth, one that could host biological organisms. This mission concept is the top recommendation in a new report compiled by members of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. The academy was tasked by Congress to come up with the best strategy for studying and exploring exoplanets, worlds that are located outside the Solar System. And after gathering input from experts in... |
| The Predator could have been the franchise’s chance to finally have an identity Posted: 08 Sep 2018 06:00 AM PDT  Welcome to Cheat Sheet, our brief breakdown-style reviews of festival films, VR previews, and other special event releases. This review comes from the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival. Warning: mild spoilers ahead. Movie series often take strange twists and turns over their lifetimes, but the Predator franchise has always been its own uniquely bizarre case. John McTiernan's 1987 original was an Arnold Schwarzenegger action vehicle that pitted a group of military commandos against an interstellar hunter that picked them off one by one. It brought with it all the one-liners, alpha-male posturing, and explosions that the decade demanded, and was enough of a hit to warrant a sequel. But three years later, Predator 2 failed at the box... |
| The Pentagon plans to spend $2 billion to put more artificial intelligence into its weaponry Posted: 08 Sep 2018 03:00 AM PDT  The Defense Department's cutting-edge research arm has promised to make the military's largest investment to date in artificial intelligence (AI) systems for U.S. weaponry, committing to spend up to $2 billion over the next five years in what it depicted as a new effort to make such systems more trusted and accepted by military commanders. The director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced the spending spree on the final day of a conference in Washington celebrating its sixty-year history, including its storied role in birthing the internet. The agency sees its primary role as pushing forward new technological solutions to military problems, and the Trump administration's technical chieftains have strongly... |
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